Inspired by the honeycomb-cut paper decorations popular in Chinese festivities, Beijing-based artist Li Hongbo uses the same technique to create otherworldly sculptures that look like they’re made of plaster when resting, but have the ability to accordion out to bizarre proportions. A book editor and designer, he’s had a love affair with paper for years and strives to expose its “endless possibilites.” One of his full-body sculptures is composed of 30,000 sheets of paper glued together and then sawed into shape.
Here’s a video of the artist himself demonstrating the transformative capabilities of one his sculptures:
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I am glad to see this art it is amazing art…….
Want.
Holy s**t, that’s the T-1000 terminator.
Amazing!!!
What type of paper does he use and does he create the honey comb structure by hand??
saw some other video in the link, and it said he does glue all the sheets by hand. It’s a pretty simple process of gluing the sheets with alternating strips of glued area. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDgCFKHQJ0 jump to about 6min in. Judging by the look of the finish I’d thing he made blank blocks of the honeycomb paper then carved it to shape. Very creative.
With the right rig built to hold them and a bunch of glue sticks, making massive amounts of the stuff could probably be even be pretty fast and painless.
I found an other interesting way and tool to make paper 3D sculptures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nw_WELwh7aU#!